Meatballs Soup

Eating soups is healthy, let’s make it also tasty!

Homemade beef broth, a lot of vegetables and meatballs, sounds good for me, what about you?

Ingredients:

For Soup:

• 1 lb of beef for soup (e.g beef bone in chuck short rib, or any other type beef for soup)
• 1 parsley root
• 4 oz of grated carrots
• 1 onion (small)
• 1 roma tomato
• 1-2 potatoes
• 1 cup of fresh green peas or pea pods
• ½ of red bell pepper
• 3-4 bay leaves
• Salt, paprika by taste

For Meatballs:

• 1 lb of ground beef
• ½ cup of rice
• Salt, black pepper

How to make, step-by-step:

1. Prepare the ingredients:
   
   
   

   Meatballs Soup Recipe: Step 1

2. Prepare beef broth using 6 quart cooking pot, chopped onion, sliced parsley root and grated carrots like it is described here. You will receive something like this:
   
   
   

   Meatballs Soup Recipe: Step 2

3. While broth is being prepared, let’s make meatballs. For that take a small pot, fill it with cold water, salt and put on the burner on moderate heat. After water become to boil add rice and steer till water become to boil again, boil rice on moderate heat for 10 minutes. Put rice to the colander and rinse with cold water. Let rice to call till room temperature:
   
   
   

   Meatballs Soup Recipe: Step 3

4. Put ground beef to the bowl, add salt and black pepper. Add cooled rice and mix everything carefully:
   
   
   

   Meatballs Soup Recipe: Step 4

5. Prepare meatballs from all meat and rice you have in the bowl using table spoon and hands:
   
   
   

   Meatballs Soup Recipe: Step 5

6. After you broth is ready, wash and skin potatoes, dice them for soup, add to the pot:
   
   
   

   Meatballs Soup Recipe: Step 6

7. Slice roma tomato into small pieces:
   
   
   

   Meatballs Soup Recipe: Step 7

8. If you have pea pods, wash them and cut in halves before, if you have green peas, skip this step:
   
   
   

   Meatballs Soup Recipe: Step 8

9. Slice bell pepper into stripes:
   
   
   

   Meatballs Soup Recipe: Step 9

10. Add prepared vegetables to the cooking pot, and boil soup on moderate heat for 10 minutes:
    
    
    

    Meatballs Soup Recipe: Step 10

11. Add prepared meatballs to the soup, salt it and add red paprika. In 10 minutes of boiling soup is ready (meatballs should be floating on the surface).
    
    
    

    Meatballs Soup Recipe: Step 11

12. Pour soup into the serving bowl and season with fresh dill or parsley:
    
    
    

    Meatballs Soup is Ready

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